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Lifting off for Australia tomorrow night for Brisbane. Leaving May 5th for Karumba on the Gulf in northern Queensland. Party of 5 initially in 2 Toyota Land Cruisers. Will be 6 of us after my wife connects with us in Katherine before heading west. Will post a bit as we go on our way...

Going back to Australia in 12 days...this time to head north from Brisbane on May 5th to the Gulf of Carpentaria, across the Northern Territory and on to Western Australia to cross the Gibb River Road to Derby & Broome. The ride a turbo Toyota Landcruiser...will start another blog!

Update...8 months later... ROO did arrive Port of Vancouver on Jan. 14th...got off the docks on the 17th, in for mechanical/glass/lights inspection, licensed and drove it home Jan. 25th. Just a few miles at home. Rebuilt the suspension with adjustable bits, got the Van aligned, replaced the...

ROO will get to Port Metro Vancouver next week after 41 days at sea and in port. The Van was loaded on RoRo carrier Bosporus Highway in Brisbane, rode south to Port Kembla, Melbourne & Adelaide then back into the Pacific, north through the Coral Sea and Solomon Islands on the way to Japanese...

ROO is now coming to Canada. PHOTO: leaving the Van at EDI in Brisbane to get to Yokohama and Vancouver. We completed the "unfinished business" between October 26th and November 21st, driving from Brisbane, Qld. to Melbourne and spending 2 weeks in Tasmania. There were 4 Classic Minis with...

Will try and post here when on the road in Australia next month...but have put up a Facebook page "Unfinished Business in Australia" (since updates can be made simply there). Some content already there.

This surely must be one of the shortest threads...and Diddy Dave's dash across Russia on 12" wheels/tires amongst the quickets. First, he had a 30-day Visa for the trip across Russia from the Pacific port of Vladivostok, exiting into the Ukraine. He was to arrive no earlier than June 3rd and...

Web site for the One Lap in 2011 can be seen here - www.MiniAdventureCanada.com - (the old URL is not operative).

Diddy Dave has dashed across Russia, through the Ukraine and is now in Poland...and thinking about the crossing of the English Channel to the UK and on home to the Isle of Mull in Scotland. Best to go onto Facebook and look at The Wrong Way Round where Diddy has posted photos from Japan...

Diddy Dave got started from Vladivostok at 5 a.m. June 7th local time...after a delay of 4 days getting his vehicle from customs. He logged 12 hours driving on Day 1 and 17 hours driving on Day 2 to make up for the lost time. He should be in the vicinity of Lake Baikal/Irkutsk as I write this...

Air travel from Canada is booked, Spirit of Tasmania is booked...the "unfinished business" will be dealt with as we leave Queensland for Melbourne on October 26th, 2 weeks in the island state, back to Melbourne, over the Great Ocean Road the right way (east to west) and on back inland to Eucha...

Diddy Dave has registered to post here so he will, if he can, as he goes...and I will back him up.

The vehicle was delivered to the shipper WWL on Friday, April 12th to cross the Pacific enroute to Vladivostok for the trip across Asia to Europe. It arrived in Halifax in May 2009 for the crossing of North America including heading north up the Dempster Hwy. to Inuvik in the Canadian Arctic...

Actually, the Dingo is smallish...and behaves just like a Coyote or Wolf in North America...spot one and POOF it's gone in a flash. My wife caught this Dingo beside the Stuart Hwy. in the Northern Territory as we headed south towards Katherine. I stopped to get out for more photos...Dingo was...

Wishing you a wonderful adventure! We only had 70 days for our One Lap in 2011 (not including the test drive Brisbane/Sydney return)...and...we missed Tasmania. So, returning in mid-October to travel Brisbane to Melbourne for the ferry and the Island State. Will be in Hobart for Tasminifest...

Prepping for our return to Australia in 2013. On the One Lap we were too late in booking the ferry to Tasmania...so, missed seeing the island state and attending Tasminifest in Hobart. Tasminifest is held every two years so November 10th, 2013 is the next big Mini event in Hobart. Our plan is...

ROO is now fully serviced - hubs, ball joints, bearings, CVs, QH joints, intake/exhaust, alignment - and ready for the next adventure, Brisbane to Melbourne for Spirit ferry to Tasmania. Has been and will continue to be a good ride! We'll be back in Australia in 18 months to deal with the One...

As a play on the saying "size matters", that is true and something other than the Mini Van would have been needed to cross the Gibbs Road in Western Australia. However, we have done transcontinental trips in North America in a Classic Mini sedan with and without the custom trailer. The Clubman...

Web site now back up &amp; CD available to clubs Web site was down recently but now back up - www.MiniAdventureAustralia.com. I also have a <300 slide PowerPoint show on the trip that could be available to clubs that wanted to see.

Our only real drama a blown inner wheel bearing up front on Day 68. But, with new CV and bearings on board, we kept rolling.